It was dancer and urban gardener, Peter Davis, who discovered the “Double Impatient”.
We are all familiar with the ever-rushing to bloom “Impatient” (hence its name) but few of my readers, I suspect, know of the “Double Impatient”, a doubled blossomed miracle of botanical science whose single blossom looks exactly like a small rose. However, this plant offers a riotous profusion of blossoms, more than on any rose bush – it is a wow.
So each year, Peter plants five planters with them next to the entry steps but this year one plant died and one plant was STOLEN.
Yes, I am at a loss to name this crime of plant-knapping or to be able to characterize the thief.
I mean, if somebody is a flower admirer you don’t expect them to get down on their knees with a trowel and excavate and pot a plant right in front of my front door! I mean, what if I came out and said, “What are you doing?”
OK, now, we have a problem. We can’t match the same color to the surviving plants, so this is a plea to the flower thief of the West Village:
Please return my plant and no questions will be asked.
